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My only objection here is that technology wont save us unless we also have a voice in how it is used. I don't think personal adaptation is enough for that. We need to adapt our ways to engage with power.

Both abundance and scarcity can be bad. If you can't imagine a world where abundance of software is a very bad thing, I'd suggest you have a limited imagination?

Abundance of services before abundance of physical resources seems like the worst of both worlds.

Aggressively expanding solar would make electrical power a solved problem, and other previously non-abatable sources of kinetic energy are innovating to use this instead of fossil fuels

It’s not worth it because we don’t have the Star Trek culture to go with it.

Given current political and business leadership across the world, we are headed to a dystopian hellscape and AI is speeding up the journey exponentially.